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Yes, Hickson, it is madness. And it’s a wonderful thing

has listening to your fears in the past truly helped you? Did doing so guarantee the outcome of whatever that fear guarded?

solace comes from within us, not from without

The answer you seek is within you. It always has been. Now you must simply find it.

a well-placed slap across the cheek was always recommended for hysterical women. Why could it not be used to make a duke see reason?

You may not believe in luck, but he does

He has enough belief for the two of you. Trust in that.

You still seek to control everything around you, working endlessly to repair the world while still ignoring the flaws you have.

Those who lash out in anger tend to be the most wounded.

And your troubles are not frivolous, for they are yours, just as mine may seem frivolous to someone who has suffered worse than me.

I hardly think a woman can truly change a man, Mrs. Rutley, for few want to change.

Well, I believe she can.

What was it about men and their incessant need to do business? Was finding ways to gain more riches all men found important in life?

He had been trained to see servants as nothing more than furniture that did his bidding, and the idea of using compassion with furniture seemed strange

Oftentimes, those with little deserve much. If we treat only our peers, meaning those with wealth or of our same station, with respect, what does that say about us?

So Julia is 18, three years Matthew’s junior.

At five and twenty, Bridget was seven years Julia’s elder and her best friend.

Grandmother told me that, years ago, a man could simply pick up the woman he wished to marry and carry her off, but now societal rules have dictated that they use less aggressive means.

(Matthew) You are one and twenty and unwed,

His eyes were as gray as a winter sky,

But when one’s mother barely speaks above a whisper, and her father belittles her every word, another woman is needed to take her mother’s place.